September 2008 - Governor Pawlenty Unveils Education Reform Initiatives - To improve teaching, increase accountability for academic results, and provide intensive intervention for 8th graders struggling in math and reading, Office of the Governor.

• September 29, 2008 - Pawlenty Education Plan: Much Smoke, Little Substance - Last week, Gov. Tim Pawlenty trumpeted his "Teaching Transformation Act," a series of education proposals for the 2009 general legislative session. Among other things, the plan would require most school districts to tie teacher pay increases to student achievement, raise standards for undergraduate teacher training programs while making it easier for non-teaching professionals to become teachers, and set up summer school programs for eighth-graders needing help in math and reading, Minnesota 2020.

June 2007 - The Bridge to Higher Learning: A New Vision for Minnesota’s High Schools In the Global Information Age - The new vision for Minnesota’s high schools should be to prepare every student to earn a credential or a degree at a postsecondary educational institution—whether it is a technical school, two-year college, or four-year college or university, Minnesota Association of Secondary School Principals and the University of Minnesota Consortium for Postsecondary Academic Success.

June 2006 - Educating Minnesota - Seven not-so-modest proposals that will improve our public schools, Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.

March 2006 - Creating Minnesota's Plan for Career Development in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: A call to action - Final Report from the Governor's Roundtable and Call to Action Meetings at he Science Museum of Minnesota.